Originally Posted by
Turbosina
During a very short window in time (late '23 through early April '24 hires), we had new hires get CA slots in indoc. To my knowledge, nobody actually went to upgrade class after 350 hours, but they did start receiving CA pay at 350 hours.
However -- since the new hire CA phenomenon ended in April '24 (the last class to have NHCA slots was April 2, 2024) -- CA slots have gone WAY more senior. The current vacancy bid has the most junior NBCA at 61 pct system seniority. Lots and lots of senior FOs who delayed upgrade are now bidding for NBCA.
I' would be utterly astonished if we ever see CA slots being awarded in indoc ever again. We do have a large NBCA vacancy bid supposedly happening in November, and I can see upgrade dropping to maybe 2 years at that time. Which is of course ludicrously quick by any measure...
I second this.
I am around the 4 year mark, and have had my bid in for over a year locally in a junior hub and have not been able to hold it. Have been missing the back fill positions by thousands of numbers. I could have held it and commuted but I’d rather just wait. I have talked to a bunch of people in the same boat. Just speculating but my guess it will maybe go to 3ish years on property.
It sounds like this will be 737 heavy too, which is a bummer for us bus drivers.